2 chapters across the catalog
Sam Altman discusses the timeline for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), suggesting it could arrive by 2028. He defines a key threshold as the moment when more of the world's "cognitive capacity" resides inside data centers than outside of them, though he admits to "huge error bars" in this prediction.
Smartphone Brain Drain, Cognitive Capacity Research
Research from the University of Texas at Austin suggests that the mere presence of a smartphone reduces a person's cognitive capacity, even when the device is turned off. Professor Adrian Ward's study found that participants performed significantly better on concentration tasks when their phones were in another room. The brain reportedly uses limited resources to actively ignore the device, leading to a "brain drain" effect.
